Time For Steem to Wake Up
Where have all the fun part gone. We use to read very interesting community driven posts. We use to be excited every morning and our sleep couldn't hold us from checking our posts. We used to have moments where staying away from steemit was much more painful than fasting. If that never applied to you, it did to me. It was like a wave of enthusiasm with awe and excitement. We used to have moments when voting was done by real people. And the main chills on the platform was discovery. Now that all these are gone, whats left to drive the progress of the platform?
I think its memory and hope that the future will be bright. Bots have come to replace interactions and now he who has the most resources gets the most faked interactions. My heart is saddened yet i have to follow the way of the system now. When will the fun in this place return? Maybe this place shouldnt have a fun part and the previous times was the incubation era for the true nature.
I have been waiting for a time when we can all invite a whole family and a whole nation onto this platform with ease. I came to the platform at a time when registration took three to four days. Now things have worsened and it takes 2 to three weeks. Steemit has been an eye opener for many social media and there are alot modeled like steemit that are sprouting up. Ono, sola, litt, superior coin and many community driven social apps which will overtake steemit if we continue to neglect our foundations. Steemit is still not user friendly and account creation is too hectic for most. Ono hasnt launched internationally yet and has over 200,000 members who are unique individuals. This tells us the dawn of a new era. Steemit has to step up or will drawn in this lake of ever increasing competition. Yahoo was reluctant to grow and the name of yahoo is hardly mentioned these days.
it is awake. look again. you are ceo of steem as well. stakeholder. we take steem to the moon. we arent to follow it. we take it. I see you at a place of responsibility at this point. when you post it stirs reaction. we need to tend to these reactions. plus much of your answers are in history. you will need to dig that up to know where we truly at at.
I agree with you on this one. Consistently working now for the bright future!
Thanks for your reply. It is clearer to me now.
I have found a change happened on here since i joined, it took 8 days for me to join back last august.
I have found that less people have read my posts and that to me saddens me to think.
One thing i don't like now is that they have removed how many viewers have seen your posts. that was the key for me because you could see how many people at least clicked on your post to see what I had put.
now its all about up-votes and if you haven't got a whale to up-vote you then up-vote bots are the only thing that people have.
Lucky for me when I joined I met a delegated dolphin who up-voted my work which gave me funds and confidence to keep fighting the good fight.
Once he had his delegation taken away my posts dropped from $8 dollars a post to 0.02c a post. which to me is a kick in the teeth for all the hard work I put into my posts.
I came to the conclusion that i would stay on steemit as I love the platform, i like to read others work the up-votes are nice when i get them but i am here now more for the community and not for the cash.
let bygones be bygones :)
that through
I think that is the sense that can push us all through this period of stunted growth on steemit. I myself was happy here a while back but due to the same reasons you have there, i have coiled into my shell. Now i scavenge for a more social type social media
I have found also that I have more upvotes from comments than i do from some of my posts. it's crazy how a comment can generate so much cash when 1 of my posts only gets sometimes 0.01c.
i think the way forward for steemit is now to keep as many new steemains on the platform as they are our future.
I have started helping Rep 25 guys with a simple up vote to try and get them to stay, the only problem i have is it is worth 0.10c. I am trying to do my bit for steemit. i just wish I had some money to invest and pay the way forward for everyone.
Seriously, there is an urgent need for us the members of steemit community to restrategize and make steemit move forward. Many have lost interest in steemit becauses of this era of bot we are in now. If not because we still have faithful members like @surpassinggoogle, @arcange,@hr1 and others who incessantly support and endorse quality post , i would have quit steemit. The truth must be told, we have completely shifted away from the original intent of Ned scott for creating stermit.At this juncture, we need to do something about it or else steemit will be out of the game .
too late in the day...
Maybe if we wrote bots that could shadow vote with prople we normally vote like us anyway, we could leverage brain and ix86 at the same time.
@leprechaun. I dont get your point
I agree. I think its might be getting worse and the fears competition for survival on the platform will continue for at least a while before things get into shape. I actually salute @surpassinggoogle for his tremendous community effort to grow steemit
Well I'm quite fresh here (3 days) on Steemit and my registration took 8 days. But I agree it's not user friendly (at all), but I don't know what will change for me in the far future about the bots, but at the moment still real people react ..... but I'm new ;-) Maybe one day I totally agree. Till then I keep reacting to posts which are appealing and I hope you do too ;-)
Have a great day !!
Hi @marionsworld, I agree with you 100% that there is a big opportunity to make Steemit much more user friendly
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welcome to steemit ;)
have fun while it lasts
Well thank you @prakashghai !! ;-)
There are many interesting topics for discussion on steemit . Most votes are not casted by people. Every thing is basically being done by bots and its on sale. Its a good business model but its defeating most of the purpose of the platform. I bet, many original good contents are buried sake of this problem. As time goes, you will get to understand.
Because of these kind of posts I understand the problem. Such a pitty !
steemit has a great future
really steem is the best thing in future for the crypto and the blogs i love this platform it can kill facebook. really its valuables system. enjoy your life my fiend
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It cant kill facebook at this rate. Because facebook evolves faster than any platform i have seen. That's why it has managed to stay on top of the ladder for a long time
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very true what says that I am new here and he publishes a very important publication and nobody recognizes me. I do many things. Draw it Photography and Nandie recognizes me that you have to pay a robot to be recognized and it's not fair. I like to be recognized because I'm doing a real job, but I see that now it's not like that and that I would like people to read me the publication and vote for me
I thank you for creating this publication that is the reality of what you say
Have you considered posting bilingual posts? I think that could help you in reaching more followers.
Indeed. Starting out is way more difficult now due to bots taking everything up
I didn't realise this place was as much fun as you described it in your post, I guessed I really missed a lot then. You did make an important point though in your post, if they won't learn from Yahoo's downfall, they might lose to the upcoming competition
That's a certainty. If we dont learn, we will crumble. This place used to be a lot way fun
If you read the recent post by @donkeypong and the extended reply by @lukestokes, youll know that ono, isnt as strong of a competitor as you feel.
There is a saying, things are easier said than done.
Steem isnt just a social media platform, the goal is to tokenize the internet.
The lack of focus on user retention is perfectly explained by @lukestokes post.
The steem blockchain is being worked on to provide access for millions upon millions of users.
Steem hasnt even started their plans, in a way, steemit right now is on an ico stage, gathering funds via the attention we bring to the platform, so the "real" steem plan can be achieved.
At the end,the above is what i feel about steem and the direction its going.
Steemit.com is the first of its kind, steem blockchain is a blockchain that houses steemit.com and very soon, millions of websites on the internet.
i think it was launched at a time when people have already mastered the art of buying an audience on other social media platforms. Not only can you buy followers and comments, you can also pay the company to promote your post. Steemit seemed to be a welcome change from that. However, as someone new to the platform, may be I don't see the damage as much as you do. For me, this is normal to start with. There is promoted content. and I have to find a way to dig out the interesting stuff from the crap. and there are solid enlightening posts on steemit at times.
And lately I have a seen a lot of steemit whales also talking about around the same point - about quality content, about bid bots, about abuse of SP. Your article also links up with those points.
Thanks for sharing your perspective. extremely insightful.
Its my pleasure. I see you view. One cannot judge without a standard to compare to. It seems perfect and okay now because you didnt feel how steemit was in the past.